A Cruel Hoax: The Political Economy Of Anti-Immigration – OpEd
Deporting immigrants may deliver electoral wins to politicians if voters have been sufficiently cultivated by years of demonizing and scapegoating
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Author: Richard D. Wolff
Richard D. Wolff is professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a visiting professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, in New York. Wolff's weekly show, "Economic Update," is syndicated by more than 100 radio stations and goes to 55 million TV receivers via Free Speech TV. His three recent books with Democracy at Work are The Sickness Is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us From Pandemics or Itself, Understanding Socialism, and Understanding Marxism, the latter of which is now available in a newly released 2021 hardcover edition with a new introduction by the author.
Articles by Richard D. Wolff :
Settler Colonialism: ‘It Ends With Us’ In Palestine And Israel – OpEd
My birth emerged from European capitalism’s fascistic catastrophe in the 1920s–1940s. That catastrophe also produced Israel’s experiment with settler colonialism
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United States In 2025: Social Problems Denied Via Rhetorics Of Refusal – OpEd
Societies survive and grow when they successfully navigate their contradictions. Eventually, however, accumulating contradictions overwhelm existing means of navigating them.
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Political Economy Contradictions As We Lurch Into 2025 – OpEd
The Republicans (GOP), traditionally the U.S.’s anti-tax party, now promise to use tariffs to wage trade wars, to massively deport
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A Reformist Program On Immigration (Or What Harris Might Have Said) – OpEd
The immigration issue has split and/or weakened both center and left parties and movements across many nations in recent years.
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US And China Why Not A Deal? – OpEd
An old theme within social theory holds that societies with very unequal distributions of wealth can sustain their social cohesion
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The Decline Of The US Empire: Where Is It Taking Us All? – OpEd
The evidence suggests that empires often react to periods of their own decline by over-extending their coping mechanisms. Military actions,
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Why Poverty Reduction Under Capitalism Is A Myth – OpEd
From its beginnings, the capitalist economic system produced both critics and celebrants, those who felt victimized and those who felt
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Capitalism, Mass Anger, And 2024 Elections – OpEd
In the wake of his huge defeat on June 30, 2024, when 80 percent of voters rejected French “centrist” President
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Tariffs Don’t Protect Jobs: Don’t Be Fooled – OpEd
Both Trump and Biden imposed high tariffs on imported products made in China and other countries. Those impositions broke with
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